First of all, to those saying the protagonist was useless...
You were right. No one said you were wrong. I never argued against it either. So why did you get addicted to cursing him out?
For example, you compared the protagonist to Shirou, saying that if Shirou knew what Sakura had gone through, he would have tried to save her even without any power, while the protagonist was just trash by comparison!
Yes, that was true. I admitted it in the story too. That was why Shirou was the protagonist of FSN.
That was also why, after Zouken was redeemed, Shinji apologized to Sakura, felt guilty toward her, took her to amusement parks, and did his best to accept all her spoiled behavior.
As for those saying he could have tipped someone off even without power...
The Fourth War had already passed at the beginning. Who was the protagonist supposed to tip off? That twin-tailed little girl? Her mother? Kiritsugu? Mapo? Golden Flash?
Seriously, even putting every other factor aside, if Shinji had actually gone to tip someone off, do you believe he would have made it to Chapter Two before getting GG'd?
Bug Grandpa was weak? A magecraft workshop was a joke?
An ordinary mage entering that place—Bug Grandpa had a hundred ways to make them die, never mind Shinji, a child.
And then there were those saying that after the Fifth War, Sakura would take control of the Matou Family, so saving her before the Fifth War would have been completely pointless.
Uh... that was actually wrong.
I already said this before: in the original work, aside from the Heaven's Feel route, there was no route whatsoever that could save Sakura.
In Fate/hollow ataraxia, Sakura controlled the Matou Family only because all possibilities had been blended together by